Human Rights’ Precise Violation in Sub-judice Matters: Some Reflections
by Dr Mohit Kumar Gupta & Ashish Kumar Singh Human Rights are the ‘legal soul’ of an individual. If perhaps they could be made ‘soul’ only. The violation of these…
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Blatant use of UAPA by Telangana Police to suppress dissenting voices
The draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act has once again been invoked, this time in Tadwai, Telangana against an astonishing number of 152 activists and intellectuals, which includes retired Prof. G.…
NAPM writes to Telengana CM to revoke the FIR filed against 152 activists including a deceased judge
To, Shri K. Chandrashekar Rao, Chief Minister, Telangana Hyderabad. Sub: Seeking closure of FIR No. 152/2022 and upholding the rights of democratic activists and movements in Telangana. Sir, We the…
Release activists incarcerated in Bhima Koregaon Case
June 6th became a day of one of the most audacious attack by the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist state on the Democratic rights and political activists and began new era of…
Five years behind bars for five activists
Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice! Release all 15-surviving accused in the Bhima Koregaon case. June 6, 2023 will mark five years that five activists are behind bars.…
Five Years Since The First Arrests In Bhima-Koregaon Case
6th June 2018. The nation's conscience suffered yet another attack by the arrests of leading intellectuals and democratic rights activists by the Pune police in connection with the so-called Bhima-Koregaon (BK) case. These…
Inquiring into the action taken and justice delivered on the matter of police firing on protestors in Tuticorin
To Mr. M. K. Stalin Hon’ble Chief Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu, Secretariat, Chennai Email ID: [email protected] Dear Sir, This memorandum is being submitted by the jury members of the…
There is room for Fascism in Democracy: Siddique Kappan
Siddique Kappan, a 43-year-old Malayali journalist and Delhi unit secretary of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists was arrested near Mathura toll plaza on October 5th, 2020, with student activists…
Mental Health of Prisoners—An issue of Deep Concern but also Persistent Neglect
“Look here, Al, I’ll tell ya one thing-- the jail house is jus’ a kind a way a drivin’ a guy slowly nuts. See? An’ they go nuts, an’ you…
World Press Freedom Day Rally held outside Indian visa office in Canada
A Metro Vancouver-based online magazine organized a demonstration to draw global attention to the ongoing suppression of press freedom in the world’s so-called largest democracy, in Surrey on Wednesday, May…
Dead Man Walking: One Poet’s Struggle for Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh
On the 26th of April 2023, Mohammad Mofijul Islam, the officer in charge of the Jatrabari police station of Dhaka Metropolitan Police in Bangladesh, recorded a general diary alleging that…
Condemn the raid on activists in Jharkhand by NIA
CASR vehemently condemns the raid on anti-displacement activist Damodar Turi, Jailed Journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh and Majdoor Sangthan Samiti (MSS) activists Bacha Singh, Nageshwar Mahto, and Sanjay Turi. On 2th…
The Human Rights Situation in the Indian Sub Continent
An unabridged version of the Presentation made in the 36th session of UNHRC Mr.President, I come from a Tamil culture which proclaims to the world யா A ஊேர யாவ¶A ேகளnJ…
Freedom of Expression: Driver for All other Human Rights
Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Prize recipient in Economic Sciences said, “Free speech and a free press not only make abuses of governmental powers less likely; they also enhance the…
Disrespect to dead teenage girls by West Bengal police
Condemn savage, abominable & shameful conduct of West Bengal Police towards the dead female bodies and repeated denial of violence on women by the State Feminists in Resistance (FIR),…
Jasvir Samar honoured with human rights journalism award
Radical Desi gave the visiting Indian journalist its second human rights journalism award, at a public rally held in Surrey on Thursday, April 13. Jasvir Samar is associated with the…
Release Gautam Navlakha Immediately! Release all political prisoners
Today, 14 April 2023 marks four years, seven months and eighteen days since Gautam Navlakha’s arrest on 28 August 2018. A well-known human rights activist, respected journalist and writer of…
Four years since the arrest and imprisonment of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
April 11 marks four years since WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange was violently dragged from Ecuador’s London embassy and arrested by the British police. Since that time, Assange has…
Stop the Witch-hunt of Journalists and Human Rights Activists in Kashmir
Release Irfan Mehraj, Khurram Parvez as well as Aasif Sultan, Sajad Gul, and Fahad Shah The PUCL strongly condemns the arrest of Irfan Mehraj, a Srinagar based freelance journalist under…
Poor work conditions, non-compliance with Constitutional provisions seriously impact adolescent girls in workforce
“We the People of India” – the Preamble to our Constitution begins with the promise that it represents the entire country. The ground reality, however, represents a stark contrast. The…
Tribal woman murdered after rape in Rohtas and strong protest demanding punishment of culprits
A tribal woman was murdered after rape in Nagatoli village of Rohtas by forest department officials and later murdered. A huge contingent of tribal women and men thronged in the…
Stop Criminalizing Journalism and Human Rights Activism: Release Irfan Mehraj and Parvez Khurram
PUDR strongly condemns the arrest of Irfan Mehraj, a Srinagar-based freelance journalist and researcher under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on 20 March 2023 by the National Investigation…
Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill
He was standing before a lectern at Downing Street. The words on the support looked eerily similar to those used by the politicians of another country. According to UK Prime…
Drone Aerial Bombing on the People of the Country is an Act of Genocide!
Stop the Air War being waged by the Indian Army against Tribal villages on the borders of Chhattisgarh and Telangana CDRO Fact Finding Team At 11 AM on 11 January…
Condemn NIA raid on residence of Advocate Ansar Indori
On the 18th of February 2023, Human Rights Lawyer Ansar Indori’s house was raided by NIA in Kota, Rajasthan. Ansar Indori has been targetted because he sought to provide legal…
Humanity’s Secret War Against the Environment, Ourselves, and Our Children
Inequitable family planning and illogical pro-growth policies are taking away every child’s right to a fair start in life. There is a conflict between ecocentric people struggling for freedom, and…
From Past Till Present: Women Facing Sexual Violence By the Combatants During Wars and Armed Conflicts
Sexual violence and rape have always been used as the tactical and instrumental weapon of war against women. Unfortunately, women have always been the worst victims of such horrendous crimes…
Aerial Bombings in Chhattisgarh: CDRO Fact Finding Team Stopped
Condemn the State’s undemocratic action of denying passage to CDRO Fact Finding Team for inquiry into Aerial Bombings in Chhattisgarh! Resist the attempt to create a war without witnesses in…
Voices of Minors working in Informal Sector from Maharashtra
Rajani, a 17-year-old girl, who is one amongst the 3309 child workers, recorded recently in Maharashtra, works at a garment shop in Nanded. Like several other workers in informal sector,…
Campaign against State Repression stages protest Meetings in Delhi
The struggle of demanding the release of political prisoners framed under the yoke of laws like Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act i.e. UAPA is intensifying day by day. Positive that intellectuals…
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” Guantánamo at 21…
In what has unfortunately become an annual event, activists today from Witness Against Torture and the National Religious Campaign Witness Against Torture held a Close Guantánamo vigil outside the White…
Child abuse and its different forms in India: An analysis
Introduction Child abuse is harm to another person, whether an adult or a child, or neglect of a child. In all racial, national, and…
Condemn Torture of Shiv Kumar , Demand Action
People’s Union for Democratic Rights welcomes the findings of the report submitted by the District and Sessions Judge, Faridabad into the illegal detention and brutal torture of labour rights activist,…
No One Leaves Home, Until It’s a Mouth of Shark!
Maulana Bande Ali, in his poem on Miah Muslims of Assam, wrote: “Neither charuwa, nor pamua I am an Asomiya. Of Assam’s earth and air I am an equal claimant.”…
The Year of the Botched Execution
There was never anything going for it, except political mileage and the desire for crude retribution. The putting to death of another human being by the legal sanction of a…
Campaign against State Repression stage programme in Delhi demanding acquittal for Political Prisoners
Over 30 rights organisations assembled under the banner ‘Campaign against State Repression’ (CASR) in Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan in Delhi on Monday, December 5, to demand unconditional acquittal for…
Calendar dedicated to Desmond Tutu unveiled on World Human Rights Day
Saturday, December 10 saw activists come together in Surrey to release a calendar featuring a towering leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Desmond Tutu passed away on the…
Supreme Court’s Widely- Praised Bail for Anand Teltumbde should be Followed by Wider Justice in Elgar Case
Supreme Court’s firmness in upholding the Bombay High Court’s order granting bail to Anand Teltumbde has been widely appreciated. However, we must also listen to what this 73 year old…
UPR IV: Turns the talk of the commons
In a clearly visible that, the word Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has been pronounced only by…
COP27: Rainbow in the Dark — Alaa and Peaceful Dissenters!
It is the fall of 2022. Close to 33,000 delegates across the world are in Egypt. Not in Cairo, Giza, or Alexandria, but across the Gulf of Suez in Sharm…
Supreme Court’s Concerns Regarding the Health of Gautam Navlakha Are Widely Shared
The concerns expressed by a Supreme Court Bench on November 9 regarding the health of an elderly political prisoner Gautam Navlakha have been widely appreciated in the country. Justice Hrishikesh…
Undemocratic inquiry of social-political activist Comrade Baban Thoke
Baban Thoke is an activist of Revolutionary Workers' Party of India (RWPI), who has been active in the Mankhurd-Govandi region of Mumbai for last many years. He was the candidate…
Legitimate Rights of Victims
Time the ruling dispensation decides whether it is committed to rule of law and protection of rights of victims and survivors of heinous crimes or their perpetrators ? Truth has…
Release Saibaba and Others
Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) Strongly condemns the Supreme Court’s order to suspend the Acquittal of Saibaba and Others in Gadchiroli case pertaining to alleged ‘Maoist link’. “Our system is…
Appeal to Supreme Court of India to review and reconsider Saibaba’s and Others Case
The Defense Committee for the Release of Saibaba felt that the Bombay High Court Judgment finally did Justice to Saibaba and others who have been incarcerated for the last almost…
Prof. Saibaba and the unjust SC judgement
SC Staying Acquittal of Prof. Saibaba and 5 others: A dangerous precedent which dilutes procedural safeguards and Compromises the right to personal liberty PUCL expresses its serious concern over the…
Torture is unconstitutional in criminal jurisprudence
Article 21 which is Part III of the Indian Constitution secures both Right to life as well as the Right to personal liberty stating “no person shall be deprived of…
Pathalgadi warrior Pawal Tuti arrested yet again
Relying on the Cabinet’s decision and words of the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, pronounced on 29 December 2019, immediately after taking oath as the Chief Minister for the…
Annihilation of Human Rights in Indian Jails: The Demise of Altaf Ahmad Shah
The unfortunate and avoidable demise of jailed Kashmiri leader Altaf Ahmad Shah is really shocking, sad and speaks volumes about the continued insensitivity of the Indian Govt towards political prisoners.…
Facing the Warmongers: An Assange Update
On the latest slimed path Julian Assange has been made to trod, a few things have presented themselves. The rusty sword of Damocles may be suspended above him (he, we…
Is the UNHRC established to protect the Human Rights violators?
The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations…
Shift Altaf Ahmad Shah to AIIMs Delhi immediately
Altaf Ahmad Shah, a political undertrial prisoner lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2017, is currently battling for his life in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML), Delhi. His cancer diagnosis,…
India’s neo-Nazi `Concentration Camps’
The term `Concentration Camps’ was used to describe the notorious prisons run by the Nazis in the 1930-40 period in Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz and other places in Germany, and occupied …
Appeal to President of India: Set up a legal service authority to get speedy justice to undertrials
An appeal for initiating action to set up a legal service authority to reach out to undertrials and secure access for them to legal assistance for enabling them to get…
Waging peace/Making war: Curious case of another extension to AFSPA
The news of extension of AFSPA, w.e.f, 1 October 2022, though not surprising is, nonetheless, befuddling. Reports state that AFSPA has been extended for a period of six months in…
UAPA: Criminalising Dissent and State Terror – Study of UAPA Abuse in India, 2009 – 2022
We are happy in releasing to the public the first part of the study of how the Indian state has weaponised the UAPA law against anyone who dares to…
Ensuring Sri Lanka’s Compliance with UNHRC Resolutions
Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka and Tamils all over the world are very deeply concerned in relation to Sri Lanka’s past human rights violations including war crimes and the very…
Apologising to Bilkis Bano
It is a matter of shame for us as a society that Bilkis Bano's rapists have been released by a District level committee of Gujarat Government. Some people in the…
Urgent medical attention and bail sought for student leader Atiq-ur-Rehman
A Statement by Concerned Citizens and Representatives of Civil Liberties’ Organizations 20th Sep, 2022: More than 35 concerned citizens and representatives of civil liberties’ organisations in India have sought the…
Brutalizing women political prisoners in the Philippines: A glimpse of the Marcos-Duterte spectacle of horrors
In his classic “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” Karl Marx amends Hegel’s quip on history repeating itself, first as tragedy and then as farce (1986 97). With the…
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